MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) hasn’t affected the point spread. The game remains a pick-em partly because Eagles quarterback Michael Vick participated fully in a scaled-down practice Friday but is listed questionable for the Bucs.

Vick said Thursday that Eagles medical people will have the last say after he warms up for the game Sunday.

While Vick conceded the odds are against him playing and potentially aggravating the injury, he responded with a firm “definitely” when asked if he would be ready to play the Dallas Cowboys one week from Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field.

Nick Foles will get his fifth start if Vick doesn’t play. Foles is 1-4 as a starter, including a 23-21 win over the Bucs in Florida last season.

Also on the Eagles injury front, tight end James Casey (groin) is questionable for the Bucs, although he also practiced fully.

Meanwhile, in a season straight from hell the Bucs have yet another serious and disturbing issue to deal with in MRSA, a staph infection highly resistant to antibiotics.

In football players, it’s typically spread through contact with skin that’s been cut or scraped, according to the MayoClinic.com website.

MRSA can look like a pimple, a boil or a bug bite and is frequently found in areas with hair (e.g. beards, back of necks, armpits, groins), according to the Mayo Clinic.

Nicks is questionable for the Eagles with a MRSA infection in his foot.

The NFL Players Association filed a grievance on behalf of Tynes, who was placed on the non-football injury list by the Bucs. That usually means a slash in pay. Tynes maintains he contracted MRSA using the Buccaneers’ football facilities.

There is speculation that cornerback Johnathan Banks (illness) also has MRSA. Banks is listed as questionable for the Eagles.

Dr. Deverick Anderson, an infectious disease control expert at Duke, met with the Bucs’ medical personnel and players Friday.

The inclusion of Anderson came at the request of the NFL Players Association, which put out a statement quoting executive director DeMaurice Smith.

“We have been involved in an ongoing review of the MRSA incidents in Tampa Bay initiated by the concerns we had about the manner in which team officials responded to these cases,” Smith said. “We advised the NFL and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that an outside expert should be brought in to assess the situation and we are pleased with their decision to take that recommendation. We have also been in regular contact with the player representatives from Tampa Bay. We will reach out to the Philadelphia Eagles player representatives today and provide them with our best medical guidance and regular updates from the outside experts. This underscores the need for a league-wide, comprehensive and standardized infectious disease protocol. It also calls for improved accountability measures on health and safety issues by the NFL over the clubs.”

The Cleveland Browns were ravaged by MRSA in the past, with six players contracting it from 2005-08, according to reports, including tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. Winslow caught the infection twice and in reports contends he was asked by team authorities to keep it quiet.

* * *NOTES: The forecast for the Sunday kickoff in Tampa is mostly sunny. The high temperature is 86. … The Eagles are 21-5 when DeSean Jackson catches a touchdown pass. They’re 11-3 when LeSean McCoy rushes for 100 or more yards. Jackson has zero TD passes, McCoy zero 100-yard rushing efforts versus the Bucs. … Bucs cornerback Michael Adams (knee) won’t play this weekend. The Bucs list wide receiver Mike Williams (hamstring) as questionable. … League research shows that just 17 percent of the teams with a losing record after five games have made the playoffs since the modern postseason format began in 1990. That’s 47 of 276 teams. Conversely, 83 percent of the teams (229 of 226) with a winning record after five games reached the postseason. The good news for the Eagles (2-3) is that Denver, Green Bay, Indianapolis and Washington all made the playoffs last season despite losing records through five games.